ThinkFast: November 23, 2010 » ~ By Think Progress at 9:00 am

“North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire on Tuesday after dozens of shells fired from the North struck a South Korean island,â€

ThinkFast: November 24, 2010 » ~ By Think Progress at 9:00 am

The United States and South Korea will hold joint military exercises in response to the North Korean shelling of a South Korean island yesterday that left several people dead. The “exercise will include sending the aircraft carrier George Washington and a number of accompanying ships into the region.â€

ThinkFast: November 30, 2010 » ~ By Think Progress at 9:00 am

Republican MSNBC host Joe Scarborough tells the GOP in a Politico op-ed today that it needs to dump Sarah Palin, who he says “cannot get electedâ€

ThinkFast: December 1, 2010 » ~ By Think Progress at 9:00 am

The president's debt commission panel will release their report at 9:30 a.m. today, and reports indicate that it will contain a recommendation to cut Social Security, but include a payroll tax holiday. The panel's co-chairman, Erskine Bowles, said that — if enacted — the plan would cut $3.8 trillion from the national deficit.

Senate GOP leadership is circulating a letter pledging to enact a new Republican maneuver to “block action on virtually all Democratic-backed legislation unrelated to tax cuts and government spendingâ€

ThinkFast: December 2, 2010 » ~ By Think Progress at 9:00 am

Yesterday, the Obama administration announced it will not allow offshore oil drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico or off the Atlantic Coast through 2017, “reversing two key policy changes the president embraced in late March.â€

ThinkFast: December 3, 2010 » ~ By Think Progress at 9:00 am

A new employment report from the Labor Department released this morning indicates the U.S. economy added only 39,000 jobs last month, far fewer than the 145,000 that economists had predicted. The unemployment rate edged up to 9.8 percent.

President Obama has “frequently clashedâ€

“White House officials and Congressional Republicans said Sunday they were closing in on a dealâ€

ThinkFast: December 7, 2010 » ~ By Think Progress at 9:00 am

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged the Senate to ratify the START treaty today, saying it was key to national security. “The issue before the Senate is the place of New Start in America's future security. Nuclear weapons will be with us for a long time,â€

ThinkFast: December 8, 2010 » ~ By Think Progress at 9:00 am

Unhappy with Obama's tax cut deal, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) signaled yesterday that [b]Democratic leaders “will try to draw the lineâ€

ThinkFast: December 9 2010 » ~ By Think Progress at 9:00 am

Media Matters obtained internal Fox News correspondence authored by the network's leadership, including D.C. managing editor Bill Sammon, which reveal that [b]Fox bosses instructed their journalists not to use the term “public optionâ€

ThinkFast: December 10, 2010 » ~ By Think Progress at 9:00 am

Many major donors are saying they may withhold funds from President Obama's re-election campaign because of the recent tax-cut compromise, the Los Angeles Times reports. “He's got many great qualities, but he is not a fighter,â€

ThinkFast: December 13, 2010 » ~ By Think Progress at 9:00 am

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has reportedly told the U.S.'s top two officials in his country (Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry) that [b]America is one of his three “main enemies.â€

ThinkFast: December 14, 2010 » ~ By Think Progress at 9:00 am

Richard Holbrooke, President Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, passed away yesterday at the age of 69 following emergency heart surgery. Obama called him “a true giant of American foreign policy who has made America stronger, safer, and more respected,â€

ThinkFast: December 15, 2010 » ~ By Think Progress at 9:00 am

Republicans won the midterm elections, but they still haven't won the public's trust — a new Washington Post-ABC News poll says the public trusts President Obama marginally more than congressional Republicans to address the country's problems, by a margin of 43 to 38 percent. Most continue to say that the Republicans in Congress are not doing enough to compromise with Obama on important issues.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have been negotiating in hopes of finding an agreement “to confirm more judicial nominees before adjourning for the year.â€

ThinkFast: December 16, 2010 » ~ By Think Progress at 9:00 am

The White House has released a summary document assessing the progress of its Afghanistan strategy, concluding that it is “showing progressâ€

ThinkFast: December 17, 2010 » ~ By Think Progress at 9:00 am

At midnight last night, the House approved the White House tax cut deal, sending the bill to President Obama, who is expected to sign it today. The deal, already approved by Senate, extends the Bush tax cuts and unemployment benefits, and was hailed by both sides as a rare bipartisan achievement and “a prototypeâ€

ThinkFast: December 20, 2010 » ~ By Think Progress at 9:00 am

The Washington Post's Dana Priest and William Arkin document the U.S. government's “vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans.â€

ThinkFast: December 21, 2010 » ~ By Think Progress at 9:00 am

The Citizens Councils, for which Haley Barbour has show such affection, publicly documented their support for “racial integrityâ€

ThinkFast: December 22, 2010 » ~ By Think Progress at 9:00 am

President Obama will sign the repeal of the ‘Don't Ask, Don't Tell' this morning, something “the nation's first African-American chief executive is likely to hail as another civil rights milestone.â€